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History of South Africa : from 1902 to the present
- Title
- History of South Africa : from 1902 to the present / Thula Simpson.
- Author
- Simpson, Thula
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- xviii, 614 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "History of South Africa explores the country's tumultuous journey from the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Boer War to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on never-before-published documentary evidence - including diaries, letters, eyewitness testimony and diplomatic reports - the book follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, economic crashes and health crises that have shaped the nation's character. Tracking South Africa's path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, History of South Africa documents the influence of key figures including Pixley Seme, Jan Smuts, Lilian Ngoyi, H.F. Verwoerd, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa. The book gives detailed accounts of definitive events such as the 1922 Rand Revolt, the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the Marikana massacre. Looking beyond the country's borders, it sheds light on the role of people such as Mohandas Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Fidel Castro and Margaret Thatcher, and unpacks military conflicts such as the World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. The book explores the transition to democracy and traces the phases of ANC rule, from the Rainbow Nation to transformation, state capture to 'New Dawn'. It examines the divisive and unifying role of sport, the ups and downs of the economy, and the impact of pandemics from the Spanish flu to AIDS and COVID-19"--Publisher's website
- Subject
- Since 1899
- South African War, 1899-1902 > History
- Apartheid > South Africa > History
- Afrikaners > South Africa > History
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > History
- Apartheid
- Afrikaners
- Race relations
- Colonization
- South Africa > History
- South Africa > Colonization > History
- South Africa > Race relations > History
- South Africa
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Aftermath -- Founders -- Union and Disunion -- Imperial impi -- Revolt -- Red peril -- Dominion -- Springboks and the Swastika -- Apartheid -- Defiance -- Charterists and Africanists -- States of emergency -- Freedom fighters -- Silent sixties -- Homeland -- Tar Baby -- Adapt or die -- Total onslaught -- Ungovernable -- Rubicon -- Liberators -- The world turned upside down -- Born free -- The settlement -- Rainbow nation -- Transformation -- The second transformation -- Into the whirlwind -- Captive state -- False dawn -- The reckoning.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-308
- ISBN
- 9780197672020
- 0197672027
- OCLC
- 1316698418
- Author
- Simpson, Thula, author.
- Title
- History of South Africa : from 1902 to the present / Thula Simpson.
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1899
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-308